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GALVESTON TRIBUNE, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 1915.
STATE PUBLIC
GALVESTON TRIBUNE
Gordon Craig
(Established 1880.)
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“Jitney is a new word which has not
been heard much in this part of the
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P. B. Neale?”
“No.”
“Or Justus C. Vail?”
He shook his head.
JOHNSON PROPOSES
TO MERGE COLLEGES
Senator Robbins Intro-
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Col. House.
By Associated Press.
Washington. Feb. 9.—President Wil-
son emphasized today that Col. E. M.
House, his close personal friend, had
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“No one sent you any word, then,
that we were coming or gave you any
orders to look after us?”
The blank expression of his face was
suficient answer. I waited a moment,
thinking, endeavoring to determine my
next move. This knowledge made one
thing clear—we were playing a lone
hand. As well planned as was the •
scheme of those two conspirators, they
had reckoned without sufficient knowl-
edge of the existing conditions here.
But was this true? Would villains as
shrewd as they be guilty of such neg-
Rev. Zebrisand His Housekeeper Met
Violent Deaths.
By Associated Press.
New Britain, Conn., Feb. 9.—The Rev.-
Joseph Zebris and the housekeeper em-
ployed at his rectory were found dead
today, victims of either murder or sui-
cide. The dead' Lithuanian priest was
lying on the church floor. Apparently
he had been shot and strangled. The
woman’s body, giving, the police say,
indications of strangling, was found in
the rectory.
eHXAS CITY AGENCY-J. L. HOP-
KINS, AGENT.
Leave Orders at Goodson’s Drug Store.
Pone 185.
TheTrlbune Is on Saia at the Follow-
ng Places, Houston, Tex.
Bmuters News Stand, Main and Texas.
Milky Hotel News Stand.
Newsboy at Interurban Station.
Newsboy at Grand Central Depot.
Newsboy at Rice Hotel Corner.
New York.
By Associated Press.
New York, Feb. 9.-—With the adop-
tion of the 1915 playing schedule as
the only stated business on its program
the National league met here today for
what promised to develop ino a gen-
eral discussion of all quesions affect-
ing the welfare of organized baseball.
Outside the conference room the club
managers gave early evidence of much
trade in players.
League Begins Meeting in
yet my right hand was hidden in the
side pocket of my coat The brute
and the coward struggled for mastery
in his face.
“I’ve told you the truth about who
we are and our purpose in coming
here.” I went on slowly and clearly,
“because I bave decided to fight in
the open. Now, I want to know who
you are—what authority you have on
the Henley plantation. Speak up!”
The reply came reluctantly, but
there must have been a sternness in
my face which compelled an answer.
"I told yer—I’m the overseer.”
“A fine specimen, from the looks of
the place. What were you ordered to
grow—weeds?”
"Thet’s none o’ your business.”
“It's the business of the lady up-
stairs, Coombs, and I am representing
her at present. It will be just as well
for you to be civil. Who appointed
you to this position—the administra-
tors?”
“I reckon not.”
"Ever hear of a man named Neale-
Bout Arranged to Take Place in Lon-
don March 29.
By Associated Press.
London, Feb. 9.—Bombardier Wells,
the champion English heavyweight
pugilist and Frank Moran, the Ameri-
can fighter, have, signed articles for
a twenty round bout to be fought in
London, March 29.
very familiar. In Russia,
small coin; in California
lect? Besides, they had assured me
that the overseer would be notified of
our coming. Suddenly there flashed
back to my memory a picture of that
murdered man in the rear room. Could
he be the connecting link, the overseer
sent by Neale? Only the harshest
measure would compel Coombs to ac-
knowledge the truth. I drew in my
breath, every nrve braced for action.
Then I jerked the pistol from my pock-
et and held it, glimmering ominously
in the light, across my knee.
“You probably have some reason for
lying to me,” I said coldly, “and now
I an going to give you an equally good
reason for telling the truth. What do
you know about the administrators of
this estate? There is one named Neale,
isn’t there?"
“I—I reckon so.”
"How do you know?”
“Waal,” feeling it useless to struggle
against the argument presented by the
blue steel barrel, “all I know is a
fellow com’ ’long yere awhile back
with a paper signed Neale, thinkin’ ter
take my job.”
“What happened to him?”
"Oh, he just nat’ally got kicked out
inter the road, an’ I reckon he’s a run-
ning yet. He was a miserable Yankee
runt, an’ I didn’t hurt the cuss none to
speak of. What yer askin’ all this fer
enyhow," he questioned anxiously, "an
a-drawin’ that gun on me?”
“It seemed to be the only available
method for extracting information.
Pardon my insistance, Coombs, but
wasn’t that dead man up there the fel-
low Neale sent?”
“Not by a jugful,” and I could see
the perspiration break out on his fore-
head. “Why, there wan't none enyhow.
That guy skipped out north ag’in.”
“Under whose orders are you in
charge here?”
Ho was so long in answering, his
eyes glaring ugly under heavy brows,
that I elevated my weapon, half believ-
ing he meditated an attack.
The Second Division championship in
the ring has not yet been settled. There
are still others to he heard from,
among whom is the Fourth Brigade.
The Twenty-third Infantry is pre-
paring for a day of feasting and sports
on the holiday of Feb. 22.
A 20-foot ring is being built in the
amusement hall, and a number of bouts
will be pulled off on the afternoon of
Feb. 22nd, beginning at 2:20 o’clock.
The principal bout of the afternoon
will be the 10-round go between Pri-
vate Tabel of company A and Torrence
of the machine gun company, both of
the Twenty-third Infantry, for the
championship of the regiment, the win-
ner to meet all comers.
There will also be two preliminary
bouts and a battle royal. The first pre-
liminary will be for six rounds between
Private Humphrey, troop D, and Pri-
vate Corbin, troop C, Sixth Cavalry.
The second preliminary of six rounds
will be between Private Weber, com-
pany C, Twenty-seventh Infantry, and
Private Torrence, company M, Twenty-
third Infantry.
Keep your eye on the date for there
is an afternoon of good sport coming
to you.
essential to capital. Capital,, now
always, is essential to labor.
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Beresford Favors Summary Action by
Government.
By Associated Press.
London, Feb. 9.—Lord Charles Beres-
ford is going to put a question to
Premier Asquith in the house of com-
mons tomorrow in which he will de-
mand that Great Britain treat German
raiders on undefended places as pirates
and, after a trial by court-martial, hang
them in public for the murder of women
and children. This applies to raids
from the air as well as by sea.
Lord Charles asserts that the govern-
ment should adopt this plan in future
and no longer treat such raiders as hon-
orable foes.
Association Will Hold Annual Meeting
Tonight.
By Associated . Press.
New York, Feb. 9.—The Polo asso-
ciation will hold its annual meeting
tonight. Suggestions and amendments
to the rules, which will be submitted,
to the delegates, were to be considered
today by the executive committee.
Efforts to encourage polo in the
United States army will be one of the
subjects discussed tonight. Col. Ed-
win S. Glenn and Capt. Gordon Johns-
ton will be representatives of the
United States army. Both favor the
sport as part of a military education.
Future of Topeka Franchise is Still
Unsettled.
By Associated Press.
Chicago, Feb. 9.— Club owners of the
Western league continued their ses-
sions here today with the hope of de-
ciding the future of the Topeka fran-
chise and adopting a 1915 playing sche-
dule in order to adjourn tonight. In-
dications were that Topeka would re-
tain its franchise. Colorado Springs,
it was announced, will take the fran-
chise if the club owners are unsuc-
cessful in adjusting their financial
difficulties.
1 Outside of stinging the British peo-
ple where they are most easily hurt,
their pride of power, and illustrating
the restrictions under which British
shipping is being carried on, the sailing
of the Lusitania under the American
flag is not of particular interest. in
this country. The German admiralty
has served notice that it will use cau-
tion to ascertain the identity of ships
attacked within the prohibited area
whenever possible. There are, of
course, a number of technical points in
the matter to afford authorities on
international law and ethics an intel-
lectual treat.
CHAPTER VIII.
Circumstantial Evidence.
e UDDENLY I became aware that
“ his glance was not directly
1) upon me, and I lifted my own
eyes to the surface of the tar-
nished mirror behind where he sat. It
reflected the large portrait of the late
Judge Henley hanging on the opposite
wall, and—by the gods—I thought I
saw it move, settle back into position!
I was upon my feet instantly, swing-
ing aside into a better position for de-
fense. Before Coombs could realize
what had occurred I had the gun muz-
zle at the side of his head.
“Now answer,” I commanded sharp-
ly. “Whose orders put you here?”
He choked, shrinking back helpless
in the chair.
“You won’t always have the drop on
me.”
“Well, I have now. Speak up. Who
is the man?”
“Philip Henley,” he whispered, so
low I scarcely caught the name.
"What!”
"Waal, L told yer,” he growled re-
sentfully. “Yer kin believe er not, just
as you please, but so help me that’s
not gone to Europe to seek to bring
about peace as his personal represen-
tative. The president explained that
Coyl. House frequently visits Europe
and that on his present trip he was
entrusted with seeking information re-
garding various questions, including
that of American relief work.
Reports that there had been ex-
changes between Russia, Austria-Hun-
gary and the United States on the
question of peace were denied flatly by
the president.
Wants to Retain a Place in the Fed-
eral League.
By Associated Press.
New York, Feb. 9.— At a conference
here today with officials of the Fed-
eral league, D. J. Haff, a director of
the Kansas City club, which it was an-
nounced yesterday was to be trans-
ferred to Newark, N. J., planned to
present arguments in favor of the
western city in an effort to retain the
franchise. Telegrams from Kansas
City declaring sufficient funds could
be raised there were to be laid before
the Federal league officials.
In the sale of the Kansas City fran-
chase to Patrick T. Powers, former
president of the International league,
baseball circles here see a movement
on the part of the Federal league to
have a team available in the East when
it is decided to invade New York. An-
other reason for the transfer is said to
be due to the long distance the teams
must travel to play in Kansas City.
WELLS AND MORAN MATCHED.
and other western states it is the pop-
ular name of a small and convenient
motor-omnibus. The prediction has
been made by a prominent English
traffic expert that something like this
conveyance will supersede the trolley
car after the main city thoroughfares
have become wider and better paved.
The jitney has reached such popular-
ity in Oakland, Cali., that the trolley
companies are asking that it be taxed
for street maintenance. At present,
however, it has no right of way or
other special privilege that seems to
justify the charge.”
Now Galveston is to have a real Dol-
lar Day, just like Houston, Fort Worth,
Danville, Ill.; Lansing, Mich.; . Chat-
tanooga, Tenn.; Binghamton,. N. .Yi
Davenport, la.; Janesville, Wis.; Sioux
City, la.; Altoona, Pa.; Aurora, Ill.;
Saginaw, Mich.; Schenectady, N. .Y.;
Scranton, Pa?; South Bend, Ind.; Rich-
mond, Va.; Anderson, Ind.; Wilming-
ton, Del., and many other progressive
cities throughout the country. The
date is Tuesday, Feb. 23, 1915.
Everywhere where a Dollar Day has
been fostered there has been great
success. Crowds of people came to
town and took advantage of the won-
derful bargains offered by the mer-
chants. From little beginnings Dollar
Day has grown to large proportions, in
some cities the crowds equalling and
even vying with the Christmas crowds
for size. Everywhere on Dollar Day
has the best of fun been seen, for
some merchants in cities that have
had dollar days have offered special
values which were conducive to fun-
making.
All the world knows that all women
like bargains. That being the case,
The Galveston Tribune’s First Semi-
Annual Dollar Day will be a veritable
mecca for bargain seeking women, for
all the progressive merchants of Gal-
veston will offer remarkable values
on that day.
Bargain seekers should keep in mind
the date of Tribune Dollar Day and
come to town early on that morning,
Tuesday, Feb. 23, 1915. That’s the day
of the biggest selling event that has
been pulled off in Galveston in many
a day. Where one merchant has had
a sale all day by himself in the past.
Dollar Day offers the opportunity of
visiting a number of stores which will
offer for one day similar values.
Out-of-town people are already mak-
ing plans to come to Galveston to
share in the excellent values which
will be offered by Galveston merchants
on the biggest of days, Galveston Dol-
lar Day.
MUST GET TOGETHER.
Houston Telegram.
The time is coming and now is in
which—to use the words of the Bible
__the laborer is so indispensable to his
employer that the natural requirements
of both make it necessary for them
to co-operate.
The senseless talk of the war be-
tween capital and labor has no excuse,
in the opinion of the Telegram. There
should be only cooperation between
capital and labor.
Labor, intellectual as it is today, is
Special to The Tribune.
Austin, Feb. 9.—Senator Robbins has
introduced his bill which provides for
the creation of a public service com-
mission along the same lines as the
railroad commission- The Robbins bill
has heretofore been explained and de-
tailed; it provides for placing all pub-
lic utilities under this commission and
regulate them. The measure contains
over 100 typewritten pages and is des- '
tined to cause considerable debate in
its consideration. The commission pro-
vided for in the measure is to be com-
posed of three persons and they shall
be vested with the same powers as
now given to the railroad commission.
One commissioner shall be a lawyer,
one a business man, and the other an
engineer.
Senator Westbrook introduced a bill
which will permit certain employes of
railroads to rest for four days out of
every month.
Senator Johnson has introduced a
bill in the senate similar to one intro-
duced in the house which provides for
placing the university and also the A.
and M. College under one board and
management. This is the measure which
is favored by Governor Ferguson.
Another bill was introduced by Sen-
ator Bee which provides that appli-
cants for license to practice law shall
make application and stand the exami-
nation before a board situated in the
supreme judicial district in which they
reside. This is similar to a bill intro-
duced by representative McAskill of
Bexar county in the house at the re-
quest of the judges of the Fourth
Court of Civil Appeals at San Antonio.
AMEND ELECTION LAW.
An amendment to the Terrell elec-
tion law was introduced in the senate
by Senator Bailey of De Witt which
provides a severe penalty for any per-
son to hinder an election supervisor from
performing his duty; the bill also pro-
poses to hold elections void where the
supervisors have been interfered with.
Senator Lattimore has also presented
a bill in which he seeks to regulate
the commission paid to agents on life
insurance policies.
The Lattimore concurrent resolution,
presented at the afternoon session, in
which he proposes to let the women
vote at a special election to be held in
June to decide whether or not there
shall be a constitutional amendment
providing for women’s suffrage, was
referred to the senate committee on
rules. The suffragettes are against
this resolution, as is also Senator Mc-
Gregor, who declared that its adop-
tion would hurt the cause in this state;
he further pointed out that the adop-
tion of such a resolution would not
bind the legislature on the proposi-
tion.
The house has responded to the call
of the people of Texas as expressed
in the El Paso platform and passed
to engrossment the bill providing for
the establishment of rural high schools.
While the vote on the bill was being
taken a discussion was in progress in
the senate on the chief plank in the
platform, affecting the tenant farmers
of the state. While the bill in the
house went to engrossment, the one in
the senate went over and will be pend-
ing business when the upper house
meets today.
HIGH SCHOOL BILL.
The rural high school bill was vig-
orously attacked from many quarters.
Several of the representatives from
the rural districts spoke against it on
the ground that it involved the cen-
tralization of power. The bill is sim-
ilar to the one which was passed is
engrossment in the last session but
which was killed on final passage fol-
lowing an address by Representative
Rogers of Wise county. Mr. Rogers
occupied a seat in the gallery when the
bill passed to engrossment yesterday.
Several amendments to the bill wera
voted down.
Over in the senate the administra-
tion tenant farmer bill was called up
by Senator McGregor. An amendment
was offered to the bill by Senators Lat-
timore, McNealus and Cowell providing
that landlords or their agents should
not charge for any rented residence,
storehouse, office building, factory or
shop building in any town or city mora
than a sum that would equal ten per
cent of the reasonable market value
of the property. Immediately Senator
McGregor took the floor against the
amendment and talked until the hour
for adjournment. He attacked the
proposition offered to be injected into
the bill as not germane to the original
measure, and urged the senators to
“keep faith with the people.” He re-
ferred to the campaign waged by Mr.
Ferguson and the declaration made by
the El Paso convention. Both had made
promises to the people which the citi-
zenship of the state had a right to ex-
pect the legislature to fulfill. He de-
clared the effect of the proposed
amendment would be to render the bill
unconstitutional.' He wanted no such
amendments attached to the measure.
Senator McNealus wa one of the sign-
ers of the original bill along with thir-
teen others.
strongly believe in its efficacy should
not let their enthusiasm distort their
perspective until the proposition will
have the appearance of a ferocious,
hard-visaged task-master when by
proper introduction he can be made,
to present himself in the part of a
friend of the race and help bridge many
an experience that today says to the
wayfarer: “Thus far and no farther.”
It has been asserted, with the usual
buttressing of statistical data, that the
high cost of living today has been
brought about largely by the idleness
of so many men who should be adding
their quota to the world’s granaries
and supply depots; be this as it may,
no one doubts that if the servies of
all the tramps who roam the country,
all the idle rich who trot the globe,
all the possessors of imaginary mala-
dies could be put to work increasing
the world’s supply of eatables and
wearables, the cost of living would be
materially reduced, and besides, there
would be more healthy people on the
earth, and this is the best feature of
the proposition and the most desirable.
Bl
one was gone before I could speak,
before I could even grasp the full
purport of her decision. I followed
the flutter of her skirt up the stairs, I
half tempted to rush after, yet as in- |
stautly comprehended the uselessness
of any attempt at influencing her.
Even the short space of our acquaint-
ance had served to convince me that
she was a woman of resource, of char-
acter and determination.
I heard the thud of Coombs’ feet
upon the steps of the veranda. That
he had been drinking I realized at a
glance, and it was equally evident that
he planned to overawe me by brutal
domineering.
“So yer’ve got through eatin,‘ hey?”
he began coarsely. "Whar’s the fe-
male? Thought I saw her here.”
“You did,” I returned coldly, "but
Mrs. Henley has returned to her
room.”
“Mrs. Henley, huh! Think yer kin
pull thet bluff over me?”
“What bluff?”
“Aw, this Henley racket you sprung
last night—’bout yer being young Phil
Henley come back.”
“Did I say that?”
“Yer share did,” eying me in some
surprise. “I reckon my ears heard all
right Why, what are yer this morn-
ing?”
"If I ever made any such claim as
that, Coombs, it was merely to assure
our admittance. It’s different this
New York has undertaken to relieve
the distress occasioned by unemploy-
ment through charitable efforts in the
distribution of castoff clothing, and
donations of food and fuel. Chicago
is putting a much better scehme into
operation. A $500,000 fund is being
raised to give work to the unemploy-
ed. The money will be used in the
beautification of the city. This plan
could be followed every winter to ad-
vantage all over the United States.
There is not a single locality that does
not have its distress caused 'by lack
of work, and inclement weather. Amer-
icans want work, not charity, and
street improvement in and about Amer-
ican cities offers limitless fields for
the utilization of the unemployed.
THE WHYS OF SYMPATHIES.
Waco Tribune.
The raid by German airships, the de-
scent upon half a dozen English towns,
brings the old seaport town of Yar-
mouth into notice. In his great work
of fiction, “David Copperfield” (we have
all enjoyed it), Charles Dickens made
Yarmouth famous. It was to Yarmouth
that “Little Copperfield” went with
his faithful nurse, and it was there, in
the home of sturdy Daniel Peggotty,
that he met “Little Em’ly,” so gentle
and dainty and loving. It is a tender,
pathetic story, and one can hardly
think of Yarmouth without a sigh for
“Little Em’ly” and her sad fate.
Football Player Injured His Right
Knee Cap.
By Associated Press.
Washington. Penna., Feb. 9.—Britain
Patterson, left tackle on the Washing-
ton and Jefferson college football team
the last two years, who was given hon-
orable mention by Walter Camp last
year, is crippled probably for life as
the result of an injury to his right
knee cap, sustained last season. Pa-
terson, who weighed 225 pounds in
training, now weighs 175 pounds and
walks with a crutch.
PROFESSIONAL ETHICS.
Corpus Christi Caller.
There’s much buncombe and danger
in professional ethics. For example, a
physician, knowing better, protects
another in some questionable bit of
practice; not because he admires him,
not because he loves his fellow towns-
man less', but because a false standard
of politeness binds him to silence that
is crime. To a surprising degree every
profession is bound to the same wheel
of so-called ethics, to participation by
connivance.
Eidtors over the country are en-
joying their annual diversion of tak-
ing pot shots at the free seed “graft”
and the pension system, lumping the
two together without regard to their
relative magnitude or importance. As
the Denison Herald says: “The free
seed graft and the pension, system con-
stitute the Siamese twins of our na-
tional body.” This is something like
matching up a mouse and an elephant.
The free seed distribution rarely re-
quires over $25,000. The pension evil
in late years has been absorbing over
$160,000,000 of the people’s money.
Twenty-five hundred empolyes are re-
quired to keep track of the records in
the pension bureau, the largest single
bureau at Washington.
morning, and I am going to be just as
frank with you as you are with me. is
that square?”
“I reckon,” uneasily, not yet able to
gauge my purpose and feeling his bluff
a failure. “I ain’t got nothin’ ter lie
about so fur as I know. Let’s go in-
side, whar we kin have it out quiet
like.”
I followed him into the front room,
and he kicked out a chair so as to bring
my face to the windows. As I sank
into it I noticed a dusty mirror oppo-
site which gave me a dim reflection of
the entire room. Coombs shut the door
leading to the back of the house and
sat down facing me, his big hands on
his knees. His effort to look pleasant
only made him appear uglier than
usual.
"Waal, go on!” he said gruffly.
I crossed my legs comfortably and
leaned back in the chair, quite con-
scious of thus adding to his irritation.
My best card was cool indifference.
“There is not much to say,” I re-
plied deliberately. “I’ll answer your
questions so far as I think best, and
then I’ll ask a few of you. The lady
upstairs is Viola Henley, the wife of
Philip Henley. She has come down
here to take legal possession of this
property. That is the situation in a
nutshell. I am merely accompanying
her to make sure that she gets a square
deal.”
His jaw sagged, and his eyes wan-
dered.
. "h!" he managed to articulate.
"What is your real game?”
"Exactly as I have stated it, Coombs.
To the best of my knowledge Philip
Henley is dead—at least he has disap-
peared—and his widow is the rightful
heir to this estate.”
"Waal, I reckon he ain’t dead—not by
a jugful!”
I felt the hot blood pump in my veins.
Did the man know this to be true, or
was he. merely making the claim for
effect?”
"That, of course, remains to be
proved,” I returned smilingly.
"Oh, does it, now! So does this yer
wife business, to my thinkin’. Waal, it
won’t take long ter settle the matter,
believe me. Who are you enyhow?”
"My name is Craig—Gordon Craig.”
“A lawyer?”
"Not guilty.”
"A detective?”
“Same pier*”
I thought he gave a grunt of relief.
“All right, then. I reckon I got yer
number, Craig. Yer after a little easy
money. Somehow, yer caught on to
the mixup down yere an’ framed up a
scheme to cop the coin. Alight have
worked, too, if I hadn’t been on the
job an’ posted. Nice lookin’'girl yer
picked up”—
“Drop that, Coombs!” I interrupted
sharply, leaning forward and staring
him in the eyes.
“Oh, too nice, hey!”
“Yes. too nice for you to befoul even
with your tongue. If you mention her
name again except in terms of respect
there is going to be trouble.
He laughed, opening and closing his
big hands.
“I mean it,” I went on soberly.
“Don’t think I am afraid of you. No,.
you keep your hands where they are!
If it comes to a draw you’ll find me
quick enough to block your game.
Now. listen!”
I made no display of a weapon. He
could not be sure that I was armed.
13
For quite a number of years the ad-
vocates of what is termed the “rest
cure” have been permitted to flaunt their
propaganda in the face of the people
with not a solitary voice raised to dis-
pute the claims they have advanced,
which claims embraced a hundredfold
more than the most aggressive vender
of proprietary cure-alls has dared to
father, and as the physical man, at
more or less frequent intervals, feels
the need of a good, long, quiet rest,
the feeling of fellowship for anything
that comes with the soothing sugges-
tion of rest, at once disarms opposition
and a welcome is accorded where ordi-
narily there would be a temptation pro-
voked to deny and combat the claims
advanced.
It has never yet been controverted
that what constituted meat for one man
acted the part of poison to another—
not in all things, but in many that
make up the list of miscellaneous ar-
ticles that are forced into an unwilling
but powerless stomach—and this offers
the opening for a few adventurous
ones, who have the temerity of their
intuition, to insist that the so-called
“rest cure” is not the panacea that it
has hitherto been popularly supposed
to be, nor it it entitled to universal
homage as the refuge for broken down
humanity, but, on the contrary is pa-
rading in borrowed plumage and some
of the specimens of its work should en-
title it to man’s con tumely if not
contempt.
These latter day iconoclasts would
Wrest from its high place in the af-
fections of the people the long wor-
shipped idol and would adorn the va-
cant niche with what is claimed to be
the worthy deity to which has been
given the title of “work cure.” So bold
have been these few champions of this,
latest “fad” that already the tradi-
tional and once favored “welkin” again
- rings with the loud acclaim of: “Le
roi est mort, vive le roi,” and attracted
by the noise hundreds are today see-
. ing, where hitherto they were blind,
that all along they have been deluded
and have been following the fox glow
into still deeper recesses of the mire
of indisposition and have approached
very near the borders of the land of
laziness.
Based on the usual array of statisti-
cal data which appears to be within
easy reach of any who has something
he desires to prove by figures and tes-
timony, the new idea is projected into
the today realm of thought for the
magazine writers to present to their
• readers in every shape that is likely
to bring the learned wrangler the price
of a week’s board. Already is ma-
• terial being gathered, the line of at-
tack indicated by the skirmish line of
space writers and lecture platform ora-
tors, and the next stage will' be the
sanitarium where the buck and saw,
the pick and shovel or the time honor-
ed plow will displace the medicine bot-
tle and put the masseur out of busi-
ness.
But in all seriousness, there is both
reason and room for the “work cure.”
But one must not run away with the
idea that it is to do all that the “rest
cure” has promised to perform, and
then some; the “work curt” has its
proper sphere of action, but it is not
the entire stage and those who so
cue trutu. I reckon i snow.•
As I stared at him. half believing,
half incredulous, I became conscious
that she stood in the ball doorway
Coombs lifted his head, glad of any
respite, and I glanced aside also, drop
ping the pistol back into my coat
pocket.
“You—you were quarreling?” she
asked, coming into the room. “You
were so long I became anxious and
came down."
“Nothing serious," I assured her smil-
ingly. “Coombs here was a little re-
luctant to impart information, and I
was compelled to resort to primitive
methods. The result has been quite
satisfactory."
"Kin I go now?” he asked uneasily.
“Yes, by way of the front door.”
I watched his great hulking figure
until he disappeared along the path
leading around the house. I had no
fear that he would ever face me open-
ly. All I needed: to guard against was
treachery. Then I turned and looked
into the questioning eyes of the woman.
"What did you learn? What did he
say?”
"Only one thing of real importance,”
I answered in subdued tone, "and I
dragged that out of him by threat. He
was not employed by Neale, and the
fellow who was sent down here to as-
sist us was disposed of in some way.”
"Killed you mean?”
"I suspect as much, but Coombs
claims he was kicked off the place and
returned north.”
Fora moment she stood silent, breath-
ing heavily, her eyes on my face. In
the pause I saw again the picture of
the old judge and remembered.
"Why is he here, then? What au-
Ahority has he?”
“Come outside into the garden and I
will tell you the whole story."
In front of the veranda and to the
right of the brick walk the latticework
of a small summer house could be dis-
cerned through a maze of shrubbery
and weeds. On a rustic seat within we
were completely screened from observa-
tion. With flushed cheeks and eyes
bright and questioning she could scarce-
ly wait for me to begin.
"Now tell me. Surely we are out of
sight and hearing.”
“I do not think I shall ever be entire-
ly assured as to that until I know more
of our exact situation,” I replied, speak-
ing cautiously. "We may have been
seen coming here, and those weeds
would easily conceal an eavesdropper.
The truth is, I have gained very little
information of value and am as mysti-
fied as ever. If that fellow told the
truth it is beyond my understanding. I
think he lied and yet cannot be sure.
He claims to be working under the or-
ders of Philip Henley.”
"What! Impossible!”
"So I felt, and consequently hesitat-
ed to tell you, but now that I have
been compelled to do so, I will explain
in full. He said this under a menace,
a condition which often inspires men
to speak the truth. I can scarcely
imagine his making up such a story,
for he is a dull witted fellow, and
even before he had threatened to test
your claims to be Henley’s wife.”
"You told him, then?”
“Everything, except the original
cause of our being here. I determined
this morning to fight in the open, un-
der my own name. That is the right
way, is it not?”
“Yes, I think so,” and she lifted her
eyes to mine. “I like you better for
that.”
(To Be Continued.)
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